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	Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
		The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading producer of military and civilian aircraft of the 20th century.
		The first Grumman aircraft was also for the Navy, the Grumman FF-1[?], a biplane with retractable landing gear[?].
		Grumman's first jet plane, the F9F Panther[?], became operational in 1949, but the company's big successes came in the 1960s with the A-6 Intruder[?] and in the 1970s with the F-14 Tomcat.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gr/Grumman.html (223 words)

	Grumman
		Grumman Corporation: From Beginnings Through World War II The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation of Bethpage, New York, was one of the most important builders of military aircraft in the 20th century.
		Grumman had a close relationship with the Navy, but by the mid 1930s, company officials were worried about the firm's sole reliance on military business and decided to also design planes for the commercial market.
		The Avenger was a single-engine, mono-wing, torpedo bomber that held a pilot, a turret gunner, and a radioman/bombardier.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Grumman-early/Aero38.htm (1455 words)

	Pioneers in Motion / How Leroy Grumman and Jake Swirbul built a high-flying company from the ground up
		Grumman, the man, was born Jan. 4, 1895, in Huntington, into an old family that had Connecticut antecedents.
		Grumman and Swirbul met in 1924 at Loening Aeronautical Engineering Co. in New York City, one of the many small aircraft firms that sprang up after World War I. Loening, which had been established by two brothers, Grover and A.P. Loening, was more successful than most.
		Grumman, said Charles Solarski, an old Loening hand who joined the new venture, ``was like the Michelangelo, and Jake was the guy who cut the marble for him.
	www.grummanpark.org /runway1.htm (3152 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Grumman himself named the aircraft the Gulfstream, likely because many Grumman executives vacationed in Florida, where the Gulf Stream current flows northward along the coast.
		Roy Grumman was a pioneer aviation engineer whose first commercial aircraft was the G-21, called "the Goose." In 1946 Grumman introduced the G-73 Mallard, a brilliantly designed and luxurious amphibious aircraft that never reached its market potential.
		In spite of that setback, Grumman was committed to building airplanes for business travel, and during the years following World War II (1941-45), he led his company in the development of the first Gulfstream.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3371 (811 words)

	Grumman company
		Grumman and Swirbul met in 1924 at Loening Aeronautical Engineering Co in New York City, one of the many small aircraft firms that sprang up after World War I. In 1919, when the firm landed a contract to build 50 planes for the government, the Navy sent Grumman to oversee construction.
		Grumman mortgaged his house, and Swirbul's mother borrowed $6,000 to set up Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. Schwendler joined them, along with two other men who would be the company's inner circle of management for the next 50 years: Ed Poor and E Clinton Towl.
		With Swirbul as its organizing genius, Grumman in the 1930s was just the sort of company that Leroy Grumman wanted: small, familial, and incidentally profitable—on the eve of World War II it was hardly an industrial giant.
	www.aerofiles.com /grumm-co.html (1395 words)

	The Grumman Story
		Despite the two crashes, the Navy was still very impressed with the new Grumman and their faith was fully justified once testing had begun on the third prototype.
		Grumman was requested to submit a biplane design, as the Navy wanted to hedge its bets against the possibility that the monoplanes would not prove to be acceptable.
		The Navy agreed and thus was born the XF4F-2.
	home.att.net /~historyzone/Grumman3.html (941 words)

	NAHF
		Grumman's aircraft company was the largest single producer of naval aircraft during World War II and Naval Aviators knew that he delivered what the Navy wanted, when and where they wanted it.
		Grumman was born in Huntington, New York in 1895, the son of a carriage builder.
		Grumman enlisted in the Navy Reserves as a Machinist's Mate, and within a few months had received an assignment to training at Columbia University to work on the operation of gasoline engines for submarine chasers.
	nationalaviation.blade6.donet.com /components/content_manager_v02/view_nahf/htdocs/menu_ps.asp?NodeID=1460199960&group_ID=1134656385&Parent_ID=-1 (783 words)

	A Tribute to Leroy Grumman
		Grumman mortgaged his house, and Swirbul's mother borrowed $6,000 to set up Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. Schwendler joined them, along with two other men who would be the company's inner circle of management for the next 50 years: Ed Poor and E Clinton Towl.
		With Swirbul as its organizing genius, Grumman in the 1930s was just the sort of company that Leroy Grumman wanted: small, familial, and incidentally profitable—on the eve of World War II it was hardly an industrial giant.
		The success of the eight-seat Grumman Goose led to development of smaller, cheaper version that came to be known as the Grumman Widgeon.
	www.virtualanw.net /specops/grumman/grumman.htm (1991 words)

	Long Island History: Raising Grumman
		Grumman, the man, was born Jan. 4, 1895, in Huntington, into an old family that had Connecticut antecedents.
		Grumman and Swirbul met in 1924 at Loening Aeronautical Engineering Co. in New York City, one of the many small aircraft firms that sprang up after World War I. Loening, which had been established by two brothers, Grover and A.P. Loening, was more successful than most.
		Grumman Aircraft was not a democracy, but it was an organization founded on equality and respect.
	www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history_motion_runway1,0,3813284.story (3171 words)

	Long Island History: Paddling a Canoe to Success
		A GRUMMAN CORP. executive was portaging a heavy wood-and-canvas canoe in the Adirondacks in 1944 when he wondered if the activity might be easier if the vessel were made of aluminum.
		Grumman through the years expanded into several types of aluminum vessels, including square-backed canoes, fishing boats, pontoon boats and hovercraft, and even found a way to rig its canoes for sailing.
		Grumman's boat division was sold in 1990 to Outboard Marine Corp. and then in July, 1996, OMC produced its last Grumman-brand canoe.
	www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-past516,0,5473146.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation (1096 words)

	Famous Aircraft Disasters
		.Leroy Grumman was born in Huantington, New York in 1895 and had a early interest in airplanes while in high school.
		The Grumman Corporation under the leadership of Leroy Grumman, 25,000 people working for them during World Was II.
		Leroy Grumman died in 1982 but not before this company delivered 33,000 aircraft to the Department of Defense.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002627F/Famous-aircraft-designers.htm (644 words)

	Grumman Corporation -- Company History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Grumman aircraft were used almost exclusively in the Pacific war against Japan, and provided the American carrier forces with the power to repel many Japanese naval and aerial attacks.
		Leroy Grumman, who retired from the company in 1972, raised employee morale when he voiced his support of the opposition to the LTV takeover attempt.
		Grumman's chairperson, Jack Bierwirth, was credited with saying, "If you don't invest in research and development, you damned well aren't going to accomplish anything." With that in mind, Grumman, in conjunction with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, developed a special jet called the X-29 specifically to demonstrate the company's advanced technology.
	www.fundinguniverse.com /company-histories/Grumman-Corporation-Company-History.html (2917 words)

	Leroy R. Grumman
		Leroy Randle Grumman received a Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1916.
		Grumman developed an advanced naval fighter with the first practical folding wing mechanism, the F-4 Wildcat, thereby permitting the stowage of greater numbers of planes on aircraft carriers.
		The Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber also played a major role in the naval campaigns of the Pacific Theater.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/grumman.htm (378 words)

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		Grumman went on to produce one of the most successful warplanes of WWII: the F6F Hellcat.
		Grumman produced more than 12,000 planes between June 1942 and November 1945, the largest number of fighters ever made in a single aircraft factory.
		Grumman has been the recipient of many awards and distinctions for his contributions to the aviation industry, including the Presidential Medal of Merit in 1945, the Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1948, and the Frank M. Hawks Memorial Award in 1958.
	www.invent.org /images/images_hof/induction/docs/Grumman.doc (712 words)

	GRUMMAN JF DUCK
		The aircraft was the design of Leroy Grumman and Bill Schwendler and was a direct descendent of the Loening amphibians of the 1920s.
		With the exception of the new float, the airframe remained basically the same as the earlier JF series, and the wing remained unchanged with a span of thirty-nine feet.
		The Grumman Duck was ideal for operations from these improvised outposts, which were usually shallow inlet facilities or single ramp docking facilities.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Grumman-Duck/info/info.htm (2590 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Aircraft - The Grumman Wildcat/Martlet
		Convinced that monoplanes were the way of the future, Grumman persuaded the Navy to abandon development of the XF4F-1 before it was completed (it never flew), and instead embarked on the monoplane Model 18, known to the Navy as the XF4F-2.
		Grumman produced 220 examples of the Martlet IV in 1942, but six were lost en route to Britain.
		While Grumman optimistically claimed the F4F-4 could climb at a modest 1,950 feet per minute, in combat conditions at combat altitudes pilots found their mounts capable of ascending at only 500 to 1,000 feet per minute.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/wildcat.htm (2061 words)

	Grumman Aircraft Engineering Encyclopedia Article @ NasaKSC.com (Nasa Ksc) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Grumman designed the first practical floats with a retractable landing gear for the Navy, and this launched Grumman into the aviation market.
		For much of the Cold War period Grumman was the largest single corporate employer on Long Island.
		Grumman's products were considered so reliable and ruggedly built that the company was often referred to as the "Grumman Iron Works."
	www.nasaksc.com /encyclopedia/Grumman_Aircraft_Engineering (599 words)

	Grumman Memorial Park
		The Grumman Logos are registered trademarks of Northrop Grumman and are licensed to East End Aircraft.
		The Grumman Memorial Park and the Grumman Memorial Park and Museum are not affiliated with or sanctioned in any manner by Grumman Corporation or of Northrop Grumman Corporation.
		Grumman Memorial Park is a not for profit volunteer group composed of retired Grumman employees, civic leaders and concerned citizens preserving the Grumman legacy in the United States at the site of the former Grumman final assembly and flight test facility in Calverton New York.
	www.grummanpark.org (235 words)

	The Grumman F4F Wildcat
		At the time, Leroy Grumman's aircraft company, at Bethpage on Long Island in New York state, was building the "F3F-1" biplane carrier fighter, evolved from the FF-1 ("FiFi") that the company introduced in 1931.
		Grumman's chief designers, Dick Hutton and Bill Schwendler, saw the light and quickly converted their biplane design to a mid-wing monoplane configuration, with the Navy agreeing to the change in July 1936.
		The FAA had originally expected to obtain their G-36Bs with fixed wings, but Grumman was working on a wing-folding scheme at the time, which would allow a carrier to handle a substantially larger complement of aircraft.
	www.vectorsite.net /avwcat.html (7491 words)

	Hellcat
		Leroy Grumman, and his two top engineers, Leon Swirbul and Bill Schwendler, laid out a plane with higher performance, more fuel and ammunition, and huge wings.
		Grumman's Hellcat output picked up quickly: 12 planes in the last quarter of 1942, 128 in the first quarter of 1943, and then 130 in the month of April, 1943.
		Grumman took care of its employees with daycare centers for working mothers, social events for all, Christmas turkeys, and the famous "Green Car Service" to help employees with dead batteries and other minor problems.
	www.fortunecity.com /underworld/video/71/id31.htm (1020 words)

	Leroy Grumman - The Cradle of Aviation Museum
		Leroy Grumman - The Cradle of Aviation Museum
		Grumman served as the company’s first president and guided it through its formative and wartime years.
		Grumman Wildcats were the first naval aircraft with folding wings and Hellcats had the highest "kill ratio" of any aircraft in history.
	www.cradleofaviation.org /history/people/grumman.html (477 words)

	Complete History of Marathon Boat Group - Canoes Sales (canoeing, boating, motor and outboard, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		During the early sixties, Grumman expanded its stretch formed boat line to include several new models, the longest of which measured 19 feet with a beam amidships of 8 feet.
		Grumman Boats was purchased by the Outboard Marine Corporation in March of 1990.
		OMC sold its Grumman plants in Arkansas, Wisconsin and all of its Marathon, NY holdings with the exception of the South Street Plant where it continued to produce Grumman canoes only as a part of OMC’s Aluminum Boat Group.
	www.marathonboat.com /history2.htm (1162 words)

	Grumman :: Fixed Wing : Gourt
		Founded in 1929 by Leroy Grumman with Jake Swirbul, its independent existence ended in a 1994 merger with the Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman.
		Grumman designed the first practical floats with a retractable landing gear for the Navy, and this launched Grumman into the aviation market.
		Grumman Albatross - A wealth of historical and technical information with plenty of pictures.
	recreation.gourt.com /Aviation/Aircraft/Fixed-Wing/Grumman.html (317 words)

	The Grumman J2F-5 Duck
		A few years earlier a young ex naval Aviator, Leroy Grumman, had gone to work for Loening where he honed his engineering and test flying skills developing Loening's fighters and amphibians.
		This work, and Grumman's prior association with the Loening "Flying Shoehorns" led directly, in 1933, to the first Duck, the XJF-1, which made its maiden flight on 4th May 1933 and which looks like a developed Loening.
		The first of the J2F series, was delivered to the Navy in April 1936 and the last Grumman built J2F-5 (J2F-5 was the first to receive the official name Duck) was accepted by the Navy in July of 1941.
	www.plane-crazy.net /links/duck.htm (439 words)

	The Grumman J2F Duck - USA
		Grumman delivered the XJF-1 to the NAS Anacostia on May 4, 1933 for testing and evaluation.
		Grumman changed the rudder and elevators to a more rectangular shape and redelivered the XJF-1 to the Navy in early 1934 where it was again accepted for evaluation.
		And although it was still the basic JF Duck, many improvements were incorporated into the new Grumman Design #15, starting with a new Wright 1820 Cyclone of 750 hp (559.5 kW).
	www.aviation-history.com /grumman/j2f.html (1642 words)

	Grumman G-21
		Leroy Grumman accepted and immediately went to work with designer and company cofounder William Schwendler, as well as hydrodynamicist Ralston Stalb to build the new G-21 amphibian air yacht.’
		he Grumman G-21A, c/n 1048, in the National Aeronautical Collection of the National Air and Space Museum was built in 1938 for the Venezuela Oil Development Branch of the Asiatic Petroleum Company.
		It was later sold and flown in Ecuador until 1951 when it was returned to Grumman, refurbished with soundproofing and a camera door, and repainted.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/grumman_goose.htm (1060 words)

	Leroy Grumman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leroy Randle Grumman (January 4, 1895 - October 4, 1982) was an American industrialist and aeronautical engineer.
		As a teenager, Grumman predicted that "the final perfection of the airplane will be one of the greatest triumphs that man has gained over matter."
		He continued to live on Long Island in Manhasset where he died on October 4, 1982, aged 87.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leroy_Grumman (773 words)

	STAN STOKES AVIATION ART - Duck Soup (Grumman J2F)
		Grumman, who was born in 1885 and was 18-years old at the time of the Wright Brothers first flight, had worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Company in New York.
		The first Grumman Duck was test plown by Paul Hovgard in 1933 utilizing a 700-HP radial.
		Serving with the Navy until the early 1950s, the Grumman Duck was the last biplane aircraft to be utilized in the Navy’s inventory.
	www.stanstokesart.com /ststavartdus.html (475 words)

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